| 摘要 |
<p>By means of the below-mentioned apparatus, shaped parts having fine and spherical microstructures can be mass-produced automatically and continuously in a convenient, easy and inexpensive manner without relying upon agitation by the conventional mechanical and electromagnetic methods. The improved apparatus for producing a semisolid shaping metal that has fine primary crystals dispersed in the liquid phase and which also has a uniform temperature distribution comprises a melt pouring section comprising a melting furnace which melts and holds a metal and a pouring device which lifts out the molten metal from said melting furnace, adjusts it to a specified temperature and pours it into a holding vessel, a nucleating section which generates crystal nuclei in the melt as it is supplied from said pouring device into said holding vessel, a crystal generating section which performs temperature adjustment such that the metal obtained from said nucleating section falls within a desired molding temperature range as it is cooled to a molding temperature at which it is partially solid, partially liquid, a holding vessel heating section which adjusts the temperature of the holding vessel when it is empty, a holding vessel conditioning section which inverts the holding vessel so that a partially molten metal is discharged and which then cleans the inner surfaces of the holding vessel, and a vessel transporting section furnished with an automating device including a robot with which the partially molten metal from said nucleating section is transported into the injection sleeve of a molding machine. <IMAGE></p> |
